That is, to a national security policy of Fortress America because there was literally no significant military threat left on the planet. The latter will cost $900 billion during the current year and is heading for $1.2 trillion billion annually a few years down the road. It’s modest $55 billion defense budget amounts to only 1.3% of GDP, hardly an indication that it fears Russian forces will soon be at the Brandenburg Gate. Indeed, the whole post-1991 NATO expansion is so preposterous as a matter of national security that its true function as a fig-leaf for Empire First fairly screams out-loud. At the end of the day a $4 trillion reduction in national security spending over the next decade is more than feasible and long overdue.